Please don't stalk the PNMs

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

I don't see anything wrong with choosing to cheer for one of the code names at the beginning of a thread. I don't think the PNM thinks "Wow, the GCers told me I should go Ravenclaw..." The PNM knows you don't know which code is which chapter, at least at the beginning of the thread, so you really are cheering for whichever dessert/sport/character/whatever and not the chapter that corresponds. Besides, the PNMs probably have their own "hopes" in terms of chapters they like before recruitment, and "cheering" for Ravenclaw isn't going to change that.

Yes, but what's the point of that? Post count padding? Reinforcing the PNM that there is someone reading their story? Adding so much fluff that people get sick of scrolling through it to real the actual story?

ETA: I'm not cool with outting a PNM's school, but I don't think it's wrong to point out to a PNM that even though they didn't out the school, it's extremely easy to guess.